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Liat Steir-Livny

Hebrew
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The Open University of Israel Department of Literature, Language and the Arts One University Road, P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-7781986 Fax:972-9-778-2671 Email: liatsl@openu.ac.il

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Research Areas
Holocaust Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, Israel Studies, Humor Studies

 

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2007
Post-Doctoral Researcher, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University
Subject: Israeli Cinema – representation and misrepresentation
2006
Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude
The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dissertation: A world of difference: Jewish and Zionist propaganda in Eretz-Israel and in the USA.
Supervisors: Prof. Nurith Gertz and Prof. Dina Porat
1999
M.A., Summa Cum Laude
Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Thesis: The image of Holocaust survivors in Zionist films
Supervisor: Prof. Dina Porat
1997
B.A., Cum Laude
Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Since 2021
Associate Professor, Department of Culture - Creation & Production, Sapir Academic College
Since 2014
Senior Lecturer, Department of Culture - Creation & Production, Sapir Academic College
Since 2009
Lecturer, Department of Culture - Creation & Production, Sapir Academic College
Since 2008
Academic Coordinator - M.A in Cultural Studies, the Open University, Israel
Since 2008
Tutor and Course Coordinator - Multiculturalism in Israel, M.A in Cultural Studies, the Open University, Israel
Since 2008
Tutor and Course Coordinator - Jews, Hebrews, Israelis: Cultural Aspects of Jewish Identity, M.A in Cultural Studies, the Open University, Israel
Since 2008
Tutor and Course Coordinator - Myth and Ethos in Israeli Cinema, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, the Open University, Israel
Since 2004
Tutor and Course Coordinator - Holocaust survivors in Israeli cinema and literature, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, the Open University, Israel
2001-2009
Tutor - East and West in Israeli Cinema, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, the Open University, Israel.
2000 – 2007
Tutor - Israeli fiction and Cinema, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, the Open University, Israel
1997-2000
Research assistant of Prof. Ya’akov Shavit, Head of the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1997-2000
Research assistant in the GIF (German-Israeli Fund), Research Group of Jewish women prisoners in Ravensbrück. A joint Israeli-German three-year research project, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2019
The Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) and the Israel Institute.
2018
The Hecht Prize for a manuscript, The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa.
2016

Elected one of Israel's most beloved & inspiring lecturers, in a national survey of the Israeli student association, 2016

 

Post-Doctoral
2006

The Dan David Prize - Young Researchers Scholarship.

Ph.D.
2000
The Shlomo Glas and Fanny Balaban-Glas Foundation Scholarship for Ph.D., The Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2000
Appreciation diploma for the M.A Thesis from the Dvora and Michael Goldhirsh Fund. The Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2001
The Yad vaShem Award for Ph.D thesis.
2001
The Jewish National Fund Award for Ph.D thesis.
2001
Fulbright Scholarship for Doctoral Dissertation Student. Israel & USA.
2001
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship. NY, USA
2002
The Schnizer Foundation Scholarship for Ph.D. The Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2002
The Ignaz Bubis Foundation Scholarship for Ph. D. Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2003
The Nathan Rotenshtreich Scholarship awarded to distinguished Ph.D students.
2005

The Open University Scholarship for Ph.D.

 

M.A
1998
The Yad vaShem Award for M.A thesis.
1999

The Department of Jewish History Scholarship for distinction in M.A studies.

 

B.A
1996
The Department of Jewish History Award for B.A.
1997
The Polish Jewry Award for the M.A thesis.

Since 2018 - Member of the “Researchers Remember” forum, Bar Ilan University.

Since 2019 - Member of the “Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century”, Shenkar College.

Since 2019 - Member of the Council for the Research of Holocaust Studies, Bar Ilan University.

Since 2019 - Member of the Academic Multi-disciplinary study group “Holocaust Remembrance in a Digital Age”, Haifa University.

Since 2016 - Membership in Professional Society: Israel Association for Feminist and Gender Studies.

Since 2015 - Membership in Professional Society: The Image Knowledge Community.

Since 2015 - Membership in Professional Society: ISHS - International Society for Humor Studies.

Since 2009 -  Membership in Professional Society: NAPH - National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

Since 2009 - Membership in Professional Society: AIS - Association for Israel Studies.

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2006  A world of difference: Jewish and Zionist propaganda in Eretz-Israel and in the USA.

2013  Yael Munk, Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Sandra Meiri and  Liat  Steir-Livny (eds), Identities in transition in Israeli culture, a book in honor of Prof. Nurit Gertz. The Open University Press, [Hebrew].

2012  The representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema, A study guide for the BA in Literature, Language and Arts [Hebrew].

2009  Jews, Hebrews, Israelis:  Cultural Aspects of Jewish Identity, A study guide for the MA in Cultural Studies [Hebrew].

2008  Myth and Ethos in Israeli Cinema, A study guide for the BA in Literature, Language and Arts [Hebrew].

2004  Holocaust survivors, aliens and others in Israeli cinema and literature, A study guide for the BA in Literature, Language and Arts [Hebrew].

2004  East and West in Israeli Cinema, (with Eldad Kedem & Yael Ben-Zvi), A study guide for the BA in Literature, Language and Arts [Hebrew].

2021  "Anne Frank”, Written by Dina Porat, Revised by Liat Steir-Livny, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

2020  “A Film Unfinished”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “Walk on Water”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “The Cemetery Club”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “Adamah”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “Land of Promise”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “Once I was”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “The Flat”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  “Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia [Hebrew].

2020  "Nava Semel", The New Hebrew Encyclopedia - The Digital version, Accepted for Publication [Hebrew].

2020  "Amir Guttfreund", The New Hebrew Encyclopedia - The Digital version, Accepted for Publication [Hebrew].

2019  Review of Comics, The Holocaust and Hiroshima, by Jane L. Chapman, Dan Ellin and Adam Sherif, Jewish Film and New Media, Volume 5 Number 2, 246-249.

2018  Review of Joking Aside by Elliot Oring, Humor Mekuvan, vol. 10, June 2018, pp. 104-106  [Hebrew].
 * Revised: in Israeli Journal of Humor Research. In Print.

2016  Review of Between Humor and Traumna, Between Ethics and Aestetics by Aya Ben-Dat, Homur Mekuvan, 6, pp. 85-87 [Hebrew].

2013  Review of the Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema by Raz Yosef, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Summer 2013 (Vol. 31, No. 4), Summer 2013, pp. 145-146.

February 2021 Postmemory and the Contemporary World, Gdansk, 25-26 February

2020 December “The Misrepresentation of Violated Women Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Fiction Films”, AJS (Zoom Conference).

2020 December ‘Shared’ History? An international conference on 1700 years of Jewish life in German-speaking lands, Berlin, December 7-9, 2020

2020 December 5th Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia: International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk [Zoom conference]

2020 November The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives, Genealogies ENRS, Warsaw, 4-26 November (Zoom Conference).

2020 September Dreams, Phantasms and Memories International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk (Zoom Conference) 28-29 September 2020

2020 September “The Flat”: The Narrative of a Perpetrators’ Daughter”, The 7th International Conference on Genocide, Kosovo (Zoom Conference), September 26.

2020 July  Yad Vashem Summer workshop for scholars - Introspection: Jewish Ego-Documents and the Question of Responsibility

2020 June The Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History, New York, USA.

2020 March  Between Individual and Collective Trauma, Estonia.

2020 March No Respect: Jewish Humor around The World, The University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

2020 January Depicting Violated Jewish Women During the Holocaust - In Memory of Nava Semel, Bar Ilan University, Israel

2019 September Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighborhood, Berlin, Germany.

2019 June AIS, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel.

2019 March The public in public and applied history, Wroclaw, Poland.

2018 December The Time Dimension During and Regarding the Holocaust: In Real-Time and in Retrospect, Yad Vashem, Israel.

2018 December 2nd Global Conference: Migrations and Diasporas, Vienna, Austria.

2018 November New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

2018 November 15th Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, Global Perspectives and National Narratives, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

2018 October Fifth International Research Conference Mechanisms for Formation of Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, St. Petersburg Russia.

2018 September 2nd "Dreams, Phantasms and Memories" International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk, Poland.

2018 July  11th Congress of the EAJS, The Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

2018 July  “Your brother’s blood cries out to me” Face-to-Face Killings During the Holocaust, Workshop, Yad Vashem, Israel.

2018 May Madness, Mental Illness and Mind Doctors in 20th and 21st Century Pop Culture, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

2018 April 13th International Holocaust and Genocide Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April.

2018 January "Relief and rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema", Beyond Camps and Forced Labor conference, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London.

2017 November  "Representing "Home" in Israeli Documentary", Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, USA.

2017 November "Representations of unique experiences of women during the Holocaust and in its aftermath", Emerging Questions in Holocaust testimonies research, the University of Virginia, USA.

2017 August "Holocaust Satire and Parody in Hebrew", The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

2017 September "Jewish-German Cultural Practices in Tel-Aviv", Israeli Identities: Past, Present and Future, EAIS 6th annual Conference, Wrocław, Poland.

2017 June  " The Satiric Critique of Educational Trips to Poland in Israeli Culture", Dark Tourism Sites related to the Holocaust, the Nazi Past and World War II: Visitation and Practice Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.

2017 July "Shaming a Kapo: The Kozalchik Affair", Shaming, IDC Herzliya, Israel.

2017 May-June  "Representation of Judaism and Religious Fanaticism in Israeli Cinema", The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity, Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH), the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

2017 May "Adaptation from drawings to animated documentary", Film Adaptation: Theory, Practices, Reception, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2017 May  "Holocaust Memory in Israeli Cinema: From Zionism to Post-Zionism", Zionism and Antisemitism International Conference, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, University of London, England.

2017 April  "Placelessness, Hybridity and Cultural Heritage", Heritages of Migration: Moving Objects, Stories and Home, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2016 December "Satirical Holocaust memes as a political struggle", AJS (Association of Jewish Studies), San-Diego, Bayfront, California, USA.

2016 December "Understanding the Past Through the Present: Oral History as a Subversive Narrative in the Documentary Film Oy Mama ", Oral Narratives and the Politics of History Making" The Second International Oral History Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.

2016 July   “Humor as a defense mechanism of a child Holocaust survivor: Pizza in Auschwitz, an Israeli documentary film” EHRI, Children and War: Past and Present, Salzburg Austria.

2016 June   “Holocaust survivors in Israeli cinema: the representation of sexual abuse”, Fifth Global Conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), Jerusalem, Israel.

2016 June  “Internet humoristic Holocaust memes as political criticism in Israel”, The 28th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, Dublin, Ireland.

2016 June “A world of difference: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors’ Rehabilitation in the American Jewish & Eretz-Israeli Jewish films 1945-1948”, AJHS The 2016 Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History, New York, USA.

2016 June   “The cinematic representation of the 1948 War”, NAPH, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2016 May  “Humoristic Representations of the Holocaust on Israeli Social Media”, Representing Jewish History in European and American Popular Culture, Museums and Public Spaces, Warsaw, Poland.

2016 May “Ethics and the Borders of Holocaust Representation”, The Third International Experts conference on Holocaust Education in the 21 Centaury, Massuah, Israel.

2016 March “Holocaust survivors’ testimonies in Israeli animation films”, The Future of Holocaust Testimonies IV, An International Conference and Workshop, Akko, Israel.

2016 January   “Holocaust collective memory in Israel and Humor”, 2nd International Conference on Loss, Bereavement & Human Resilience in Israel and the World: Facts, Insights & Implications, Eilat, Israel.

2016 January   "Why do we forget?", Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, The Open University, Israel.

2015 November   “From Utopia to Dystopia: The Cinematic Representation of Holocaust Survivors’ Immigration to Israel," Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns, The 2015 Film & History Conference, Madison WI.

2015 November   “The new memory of the Holocaust in Israeli culture”, The Second International Conference of the Open University of Israel  for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, The Open University, Israel.

2015 October   “The Changing Image of Hitler in the New Digital and Social Media in Israel," Sixth International Conference on the Image, Media Materiality: Towards Critical Economies of “New” Media, Berkeley, California, USA.

2015 October   "Who is Dead? God or Nietzsche? The Killing of God and his Rebirth in Israeli Cinema," Pop! Goes the Tragedy: The Eternal Return of Friedrich Nietzsche in Popular Culture, the Department of Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

2015 June "Hitler Rants – A phenomena on Youtube," ISHS International Humor conference, June, Holy Names University, Oakland, California USA.

2015 May   “Sexual Violence and Deviancy: the Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films," Provocation in Art: Scandal, Shock and Sexuality in Contemporary Cinema and Visual Culture International Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Romania.

2015 April       “Holocaust Satire on Israeli Television," The Holocaust and the Contemporary World International Conference, Krakow, Poland.

2012 June  “The alternative path of the collective memory: the new Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremonies," AIS (Association for Israel Studies), Haifa University, Israel.

2011 June  “Dual mourning: the linkages between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Jewish-Israeli cinema," AIS (Association for Israel Studies), Brandies University, Boston USA.

2010 July  “Hitler is looking for a parking space in Tel Aviv," NAPH (the National Association of Professors of Hebrew), International conference on Hebrew language and literature, Yeshiva University, New-York, USA [Hebrew].

2009 July  “Sayed Kashua as a Hebrew writer” (with Adia Mendelson-Maoz), NAPH (the National Association of Professors of Hebrew), International conference on Hebrew language and literature, London, UK [Hebrew].

Talks at Israeli Conferences and Seminars

2021 May “Holocaust Studies in Israel -The report”, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities [Zoom]

2021 April The critique on Educational Journeys to Poland”, Understand, Keep, Remember, Yad Izhak ben Zvi, Claims conference and Sapir Academic college

2021 April  “One Trauma, Two Perspectives, Three Years”, The National Library

2021 April “The critique on Educational Journeys to Poland”,  Understand, Keep, Remember, Yad Izhak ben Zvi, Claims conference and Sapir Academic college [Zoom]

2021 January  “The Flat”, International Holocaust Memorial Day, The Open University

2021 January “Holocaust Representations in Israeli culture”, International Holocaust Memorial Day, The Next Generation to Holocaust & Heroism Legacy association

2019 April “Neighbors to the Killings”, Holocaust and Genocide: Historical and Aesthetic Representations”, Bar-Ilan University [Hebrew]

2019 February “Holocaust Representations in Israeli Documentaries”, Wohlin House, YadVashem, Center for Holocaust Education,. Givatayim

2018 June        "The 1948 in the Film Homeland", The Long 1948, the Open University [Hebrew].

2017 September "The Exodus Affair in the American-Zionist Cinema", The Long 1948, the Open University [Hebrew]

2016 May  “French Cinema and the Holocaust”, Cinema Academia, the Open University [Hebrew]

2016 May "The Return to Germany in Israeli cinema", Key House [Hebrew]

2016 May "How do we Remember? Holocaust Representations in Contemporary Israel", Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel  [Hebrew]

2016 May "The Image of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema", Rozin Center [Hebrew]

2016 March "Holocaust in the Israeli present", Beit hatfutzot [Hebrew]

2016 February  “Hitler Rants and we laugh: Holocaust humor on social networks, Holocaust and Graphic Novels, The Ghetto Fighters' House [Hebrew].

2016 January "Why do we forget?", Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, The Open University, Israel [Hebrew].

2015 December "Representations of Homosexuals in the Holocaust in Israeli Culture", Teachers' Association against Antisemitism & Racism

2015 June  “Holocaust representations in Israeli Popular Culture," Witnesses in Uniform, Massuah [Hebrew]

2015 May  “Yoram Kaniuk – 2 Years after his death," The Open University [Hebrew]

2015 April “The representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli cinema," Between the Sirens, The Ghetto Fighters' House [Hebrew].

2015 April  “Intergenerational transmission of trauma in second and third generation Holocaust survivors," The Jerusalem Mental Health Center [Hebrew].

2015 April  “Holocaust Satire," The Israel Movement for Reform & Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) [Hebrew].

2015 April “Can we laugh? Humoristic representation of the Holocaust in Israel, Innovid Israel [Hebrew].

2015 March "Multiculturalism in Israeli satire," Multiculturalism in Israel, The Open University [Hebrew].

2015 March "Their Trauma, Our Interpretation," Hillel International, Sapir Academic College [Hebrew].

2015 March  "How do we remember the Holocaust," The Scouts Organization, Israel [Hebrew].

2015 February  "The new memory of the Holocaust in Israel", The Open University [Hebrew].

2015 January "Humoristic representations of the Holocaust in Israeli culture", Hillel International, Ben Gurion University [Hebrew].

2014 January  "Holocaust Satire in Israeli Television", Yad vaShem [Hebrew].

2014 January "The representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli fiction films", Hillel International [Hebrew].

2014 April, June "The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema", Massuah [Hebrew].

2013 May   "Back to Germany in Israeli Cinema", The Return home in Israeli cinema,
The Open University, Haifa [Hebrew].

2013 Febuary  "New Germany" in Metalic Bluz, University in Highschool, The Open University.

2012 November "Multiculturalism in Israel, M.A seminar", Kibbutzim College of Education [Hebrew].

2012 January  "The representation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli cinema", Israeli society and the Holocaust in Dina Porat’s book The Smoke-Scented Coffee, Tel Aviv University [Hebrew].

2011 May  "From the hill to the tunnel – the 1948 war in "Hill 24 doesn't answer" and "Forgivness," David Yellin College, Jerusalem [Hebrew].

2011 January  ""Can we laugh about it? Holocaust humor in Australia and the USA", Holocaust memorial day colloquium, The Open University [Hebrew].

2010 June  "Time stood still – Israelization of Israeli-Arabs in Israeli literature", The 24st Israel inter-University conference for Hebrew literature research, The Open University [Hebrew].

2008 June  "The ‘New Jew’ in Israeli cinema", Jewish history - the educational system,  Jerusalem [Hebrew].

2008 May  "Walk on water – the encounter between Israel and Germany", Beit Avi Hai [Hebrew].

2008 Febuary  "Educational journies to Poland – cinematic aspects of education", Yad vaShem [Hebrew].

2007 December "The torn screen – Holocaust survivors between History and Cinema", the Shalom Aleichem Center, Tel Aviv [Hebrew].

2007 October  "Historical memory and the representation of the Holocaust", Yad vaShem [Hebrew].

2006 June  "Near and far", The Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, May, Tel Aviv [Hebrew].

2004 March  "Testimonies and films: The image of Holocaust survivors after WWII", Masuah,  Beit-Yitzhak [Hebrew] .

2000 April  "Virtual reality – My father’s house", the Shalom Aleichem Center, Tel Aviv [Hebrew].

International Panels

2020 Novemaber The Ghetto Fighter’s House Eighth Lecture in the International Virtual Series “Talking Memory” With Ferne Pearlstein and Liat Steir-Livny: Humor and the Holocaust

2020 August Panelist: “Memory Forward: How the 3G Tells the Stories of the Holocaust”, 3GNY and 75Liberation, New York (Zoom Webinar).

2020August Panelist: "Reverberations of Holocaust Memory", The Dialogue Center in Lodz (Zoom Webinar).

2020 August Panelist: Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt), The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (Zoom Webinar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOTv7_jGhfc

1. Steir-Livny Liat (2009), "Der Glaube im Angesicht der Holle", in: Irith Knebel (ed), A Schnittpunnkt des Holocaust: Juedische Frauen und Kinder im Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück, Metropol, Germany, pp. 237-255 [German].
1.1. Steir-Livny Liat (2010), "Faith in the Face of Hell", in: Irith Knebel (ed), A Holocaust Crossroads: Jewish Women and Children in Ravensbrück, Vallentine Mitchell, England, pp. 205-220.

2. Shavit Ya'acov & Steir-Livny Liat (2009), "Yonatan Ratosh, the 'Canaanites' and their Attitude to the Holocaust, 1943-1953," In: Dina Porat (ed), When disaster comes from Afar, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, pp. 85-102 [Hebrew]. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

3. Steir-Livny Liat (2011), "Near and far: the representation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli feature films," In: Miri Talmon-Bohm and Yaron Peleg (eds), Israeli cinema: identities in motion, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 168-180.

4. Steir-Livny Liat (2012), "The Link between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab Conflict in Israeli culture 1950s – 1970s," In: Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Malgorzata Pakier (eds), Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture, Frankfurt am Main:: Peter Lang GmbH - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, pp. 157-168.

5. Steir-Livny Liat (2013), "The Comeback of Jewish Diaspora in Israeli culture," In: Yael Munk, Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Sandra Meiri and Liat Steir-Livny (eds), Identity in transition in Israeli culture, a book in honor of Prof. Nurit Gertz, Raanana: The Open University, pp. 461-481. [Hebrew].

6. (*) Steir-Livny Liat (2015), “Between Victims and Oppressors: The link between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israeli Cinema," In: Roni Stauber, Aviva Halamish & Esther Webman (eds), Holocaust and Anti-Semitism: Research and Public discourse - Essays presented in honor of Prof. Dina Porat, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, pp. 181-198 [Hebrew].

7. (*) Steir-Livny Liat (2018), "Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust Humor in Israeli Popular Culture", In: Arie Sover (ed), Laughter: Anthology of Multi-Disciplinary Articles in Humor Research, Jerusalem: Carmel, pp. 167-192 [Hebrew].

8. (*) Steir-Livny Liat (2018), “Post-Holocaust Heritage of Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Jewish Immigrants From Germany to Eretz-Israel in the 1930s, and the Transgenerational Transfer of the Trauma in the Israeli Documentary Film The Flat”, in: Davidovitch Nitza, Cohen Ronen A. and Lewin Eyal (eds), Post-Holocaust Studies in a Modern Context, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 70-84.

9. (*) Demsky Jeffrey Scott & Steir-Livny Liat (2018), "Holocaust Jokes on American and Israeli Situational Comedies: Signaling Positions of Memory Intimacy and Distance", In: Sover Arie (ed), The Languages of Humor: Jokes Caricatures & Slapstick, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 70-85. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

10. (*) Steir-Livny Liat (2018), “Laughing Away the Pain: Holocaust Humor in Israeli Popular Culture”, In: Benavides-Delgado, J. (Ed.), Humor y política: una perspectiva transcultural [Humour and Politics: A Transcultural Perspective], Bogotá: Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia pp. 323-349.

11. (*) Mendelson-Maoz Adia & Steir-Livny Liat (2020), "Contemporary Israeli Television Challenges National Traumas", In: Tim Nieguth (ed), Nationalism and Popular Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 61-78. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

12. (*) Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), "The image of Anne Frank: From Universal Hero to Comic Figure", In: Gabriel Finder, Avinoam Patt & David Slucki (eds), Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, Detroit: Wayne University Press, pp. 195-217

13. (*) Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), “Dark tourism as controversial leisure enterprise in Israeli TV satire shows”, In: Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, and Gilad Padva (eds), Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society, New York: Routledge, pp 72-84.

14. Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), “Beyond The Chamber Quintet: Holocaust Humor on Israeli TV in the 2000s”, In: Miri Talmon and Yael Levi (eds), Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions, New York: Routledge, 235-246.

15. Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), "Contemporary Israeli Television Challenges National Traumas", (with Adia Mendelson-Maoz), In: Tim Nieguth (ed), Nationalism and Popular Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 61-78.

16. Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), "The image of Anne Frank: From Universal Hero to Comic Figure", Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt, Detroit: Wayne University Press, pp. 195-217.

17. Steir-Livny Liat, (2020), “Dark tourism as controversial leisure enterprise in Israeli TV satire shows”, In: Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, and Gilad Padva (eds), Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society, New York: Routledge, pp. 72-84.

1. Steir-Livny Liat (2000), ""Virtual reality – The representation of the Yishuv, the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors in the film My Father’s House (1947)," Bonds of Silence, Massuah, vol.28, pp. 343-359 [Hebrew].". Bonds of Silence, Massuah, vol.28, pp. 343-359 [Hebrew].

2. Shavit Ya'acov & Steir-Livny Liat (2004), "Who cried wolf? How did Ze’ev Jabotinsky understand the nature and intensions of Nazi Germany?" In: Avi Bareli and Pinhas Ginossar (eds), In the eye of the Storm – essays on Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Ben-Gurion Institute, vol. 14, pp. 345-369 [Hebrew]. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)
2.1. Revised:  Steir-Livny Liat (2005), "Qui criait au loup? Comment Zeev Jabotinsky percut-il l’Allemagne nazie et son projet?," Revue d’histoire de la Shoah 182, pp. 67-93.

3. Steir-Livny Liat (2005), "The representation of Holocaust survivors in the Eretz-Israeli cinema in the late 1940s," In: Nili Keren (ed), What was the word “Shoah”? – The Holocaust and the Israeli cultural discourse, Massuah, vol.33, pp. 80-92 [Hebrew].

4. Steir-Livny Liat (2005), "Fiction against Reality," REEH, Revue Europeenne Des Etudes Hebraiques, No.11, Paris: Institut Europeen d’Etudes Hebraiques, pp. 39– 54 [Hebrew].

5. Steir-Livny Liat (2006), "Representation of the Holocaust in the press of Zionist organizations in Palestine and the United-States 1945-1948," Kesher, vol.34, pp. 34-46 [Hebrew].

6. Steir-Livny Liat (2006), " Illegal immigration in The Illegals," Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, vol.15, Ben-Gurion Institute, pp 393-412 [Hebrew].

7. Steir-Livny Liat (2008), "As the clay in the potter’s hand: memory, space and image in the Zionist press in Eretz Israel and the United States 1945-1948", Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, vol. 22, pp. 299-330 [Hebrew].

8. Mendelson-Maoz Adia & Steir-Livny Liat (2011), "The Jewish works of Sayed Kashua: Subversive or Subordinate?", Israel Studies Review, Vol.26, No. 1, pp. 107-129. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

9. Mendelson-Maoz Adia & Steir-Livny Liat (2011), "Hybridity in Israeli television – the first Israeli-Arab sitcom", Media Frames (Misgarot media) 6, pp. 31-59. [Hebrew]. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

10. Steir-Livny Liat (2011), "The threefold exile – the female Holocaust survivor in Israeli cinema," In: Margalit Shilo and Gideon Katz (eds), Gender in Israel – new studies on gender in the Yishuv and the state, Iyunim bitkumat Israel Thematic Series, Vol. 6, pp, 497-520 [Hebrew].

11. Mendelson-Maoz Adia & Steir-Livny Liat (2013) Israeli Journal of Humor Research, December, 4, pp. 78-94. (The authors' names are listed alphabetically. Both authors contributed equally to this work)

12. Steir-Livny Liat (2014), “Holocaust Humor: Satirical Sketches in "Eretz Nehederet," Humor Mekuvvan: A Research Journal in Humor Studies,3, pp.6-18 [Hebrew].

13. Steir-Livny Liat (2015), “Holocaust humor, satire, and parody on Israeli television," Jewish Film and New Media, 3/2, Fall 2015, pp. 193-219.

14. Steir-Livny Liat (2015), “Sexual Abuse and Deviancy: Women Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films” Ekphrasis 15 vol 2, pp. 72-87.

15. Steir-Livny Liat (2016), “Alternative Memory: Alternative ceremonies on Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day," Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 28, pp. 131-150 [Hebrew].

16. Steir-Livny Liat (2016), “Holocaust Satire on Israeli TV: the Battle against Canonic Memory Agents”, Gdańsk Journal of Humanities (Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne), No 6, pp. 197-212.

17. Steir-Livny Liat (2016), "From victims to perpetrators: cultural representations of the link between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2 (7.2), September, pp. 123-136.

18. Steir-Livny Liat (2016), "Hitler Rants on YouTube Parodies on Hebrew", The European Journal of Humour Research, Vol 4, No. 4, pp. 105-121.

19. Steir-Livny Liat (2017), "Aftereffects: The Representation of the Holocaust, its Universal Moral Implications and the Transgenerational Transformation of the Trauma, based on the Israeli documentary film Oy Mama", Kultura Popularna, 1 (51), 2017, pp. 118-135.

20. Steir-Livny Liat (2017), "Shattered Encounters:  From My Father's House (1947) to My Father's House (2008)", Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought, Vol 6. No1, pp. 29-51.

21. Steir-Livny Liat, (2018) “Remembrance in the Living Room [Zikaron b’Salon]: Grassroots Gatherings Creating New Forms of Holocaust Commemoration in Israel”, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 25.

22. Steir-Livny Liat, (2018) "Trauma from the Perspective of Holocaust Survivors in the Israeli Film 'The Cellar' (Natan Gross,1963)", Prooftext: A Journal of Jewish Literature History,  Vol 37:2, pp. 308-327.

23. Steir-Livny Liat (2018), “The Hero's Wife: The Depiction of Female Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema Before the Eichmann Trial and in its aftermath”, Polish Political Science Yearbook, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 406–413.

24. Steir-Livny Liat (2018), “The Portrayal of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films Following the Six­‑Day War “, Narracje o Zagładzie, 4: 96-112.

25. Steir-Livny Liat (2019), “Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust Survivors in Israeli cinema in the 1950s: A Revised Outlook”, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2019, pp. 1-34.

26. Steir-Livny Liat (2019), “Kristallnacht in Tel Aviv”: Nazi Associations in the Contemporary Israeli Socio-Political Debate”, New Perspectives on Kristallnacht, The Study of the Jewish Role in American Life Annual Review, Volume 17, Edited by Wolf Gruner and Steven J. Ross, pp. 283-310.

27. Steir-Livny Liat (2019), “Looking Beyond the Victims: Descendants of the Perpetrators in Hitler’s Children”, Holocaust Studies. Volume 27 (2), pp. 293-306. DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2019.1637500

28. Steir-Livny Liat (2020), “Remembrance in the Living Room [Zikaron b’Salon]: Grassroots Gatherings Creating New Forms of Holocaust Commemoration in Israel”, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Volume 26, 2020 - Issue 2: Special Issue: Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century, 241-258.

29. Steir-Livny Liat (2020), “The Illegals: a unique but overlooked historical documentation of illegal immigration”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2020.1853322

30. Steir-Livny Liat (2021), “(Im)Possible Romance: Intimate Relationships Between Israeli Jews and Non-Jewish Germans in Contemporary Israeli Documentary Cinema”, Israel Studies, 26 (1): 149-171.

31. Steir-Livny Liat (2021), “Growing in the Shadow of the Past: Second Generation Holocaust Survivors' Childhoods as depicted in Israeli Documentary Films”, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 32, pp. 157-168.

2019 Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

2018 One Trauma, Two Perspectives, Three Years, Haifa: The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa [Hebrew].

2017 Is It O.K to Laugh about it? Holocaust Humour, Satire and Parody in Israel Culture. London: Vallentine Mitchell Press.

2014 Let the memorial hill Remember: Holocaust Representation in Israeli Popular Culture, Tel Aviv: Resling. [Hebrew].

2009      Two Faces in the Mirror – the Image of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema,
              Jerusalem: Magnes-Eshkolot Press, The Hebrew University [Hebrew].

(Hebrew)

2020 “Quarantine is not a Great Concept for Holocaust Researcher”, In: Creating Under Covid, edited by Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Bar Ilan University, p. 138, https://www.ourboox.com/books/creating-under-covid/

2018 “His Holocaust" Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2017  "To Mold the Memory: the works of Nava Semel", YNET, 3 December [Hebrew].

2015  “Somewhere over the Ketchup”, Hapinkas

2015 “’Like’ to Auschwitz" Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College

2015 “What happens in our backyard?" Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2015 “Is Holocaust awareness changing?" Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2015  "The Colorful Shrouds of History," YediOp, 3.

2015  "When you are the skinniest girl in the kindergarten," Hapinkas.

2014  "Teaching your children to hate Ashkenazim,," Hapinkas.

2014 "Wanted: Polite Palestinians," Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2014  "The difference between dove and a pigeon," Hapinkas.

2014 “The problematic generalization of Holocaust Survivors,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2014  “Yiddish is strong stuff,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2014 “Look at him and see our reflection,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2014 “Alternative Ceremonies  - the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2014  “Don’t talk about Arik,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2013 “Ahasuerus and the Holocaust,” Haaretz, 27.10.2013

2013 “After dinner we’ll play a little game called Holocaust,” Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2013  “Holocaust Humor in Israel,” Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2013 “The grand illusion,” Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

“A bitter cup of coffee,” Maamul, the Department  of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Acad

2012 “The king is Naked,” Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2012  “To rethink about the Holocaust," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2012 “A Cosmic Optimistic," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2012  “Israeli Orientalism,” Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2012 "You are responsible for your actions," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College. 

2011  "The road to bourgeoisie is paved with good intensions," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2011  "From oppressed to oppressor," Haokets.

2011  "Roza Parks and the ultra-orthodox buses in Jerusalem," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College

2011  "The people demand a new party," Maamul, the Department; of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2011  "About the silence," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2011  "“A few footnotes about ‘footnote’, Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2011  "The Silver touch of Amnon Dankner," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2011  "Holocaust is not a good item for Facebook," Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College.

2010  “By then, I didn't want to stay in the Ma'abara”, Maamul, the Department of Culture, Creation and Production, Sapir Academic College, vol. 1, pp. 61-64.

2018 “Holocaust Commemoration in ‘The Flat’: Dismantling the Collective and Private Home”, Takriv, vol 17

2016 “The return of the prodigal father”, Short Film Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 203-207.

2016 “Jehovah's Witnesses: Memory and Forgetfulness in Israeli Culture”, in: Yair Auron and Sarit Zeibert (eds), The non-Jewish victims of the Nazi Ragime, pp. 201-209 [Hebrew].

2015 “Raphael’s Guide to Europe”, haKivun Mizrah, Decempber, pp. 32-36 [Hebrew].

2015 “The new memory of the Holocaust in Israel," Mizcar, 45, pp. 38-43 [Hebrew].

2013 “The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli cinema,” Mizcar, 40, pp. 36-39 [Hebrew].

2011 "Nostalgia is not what it used to be – Yoram Kaniuks' Vultures & Dead Flesh", Moznaim, 2-3 November, pp. 78-82 [Hebrew].

2007  "Shakespeare's sister lives and writes in Tiberius", Panim, 40, pp. 75-78 [Hebrew].

2007 "The Image of the Sabra in ‘He went in the fields,'" Kivunim Hadashim, vol.15, pp. 290-304 [Hebrew].

2006 "Walking on water – A new perspective on the Holocaust", Ofakim Hadashim, vol.27 [Hebrew].

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